Word Meanings - PUNCTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A puncturing, or pricking; a puncture.

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• PUNCTURE
  1. The act of puncturing; perforating with something pointed. 2. A small hole made by a point; a slight wound, bite, or sting; as, the puncture of a nail, needle, or pin. A lion may perish by the puncture of an asp. Rambler.
• PRICKING-UP
  The first coating of plaster in work of three coats upon laths. Its surface is scratched once to form a better key for the next coat. In the United States called scratch coat. Brande & C.
• PRICKPUNCH
  A pointed steel punch, to prick a mark on metal.
• PRICKLINESS
  The quality of being prickly, or of having many prickles.
• PRICKSONG
  Music written, or noted, with dots or points; -- so called from the points or dots with which it is noted down. He fights as you sing pricksong. Shak.
• PRICKWOOD
  A shrub ; -- so named from the use of its wood for goads, skewers, and shoe pegs. Called also spindle tree.
• PRICKLY
  Full of sharp points or prickles; armed or covered with prickles; as, a prickly shrub. Prickly ash , a prickly shrub with yellowish flowers appearing with the leaves. All parts of the plant are pungent and aromatic. The southern species
• PRICKLE
  1. A little prick; a small, sharp point; a fine, sharp process or projection, as from the skin of an animal, the bark of a plant, etc.; a spine. Bacon. 2. A kind of willow basket; -- a term still used in some branches of trade. B. Jonson. 3. A
• PRICKY
  Stiff and sharp; prickly. Holland.
• PRICKET
  A buck in his second year. See Note under 3d Buck. Shak.
• PRICKMADAM
  A name given to several species of stonecrop, used as ingredients of vermifuge medicines. See Stonecrop.
• PRICKING
  1. The act of piercing or puncturing with a sharp point. "There is that speaketh like the prickings of a sword." Prov. xii. 18 . The driving of a nail into a horse's foot so as to produce lameness. Same as Nicking. 3. A sensation of being pricked.
• PRICKER
  A small marline spike having generally a wooden handle, -- used in sailmaking. R. H. Dana, Ir. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, pricks; a pointed instrument; a sharp point; a prickle. 2. One who spurs forward; a light horseman. The prickers,
• PRICK-EARED
  Having erect, pointed ears; -- said of certain dogs. Thou prick-eared cur of Iceland. Shak.
• PRICKLEBACK; PRICKLEFISH
  The stickleback.
• PRICKLING
  Prickly. Spenser.
• PRICKSHAFT
  An arrow.
• PUNCTURED
  Produced by puncture; having the characteristics of a puncture; as, a punctured wound. (more info) 1. Having the surface covered with minute indentations or dots.
• PRICK
  A small roll; as, a prick of spun yarn; a prick of tobacco. (more info) 1. That which pricks, penetrates, or punctures; a sharp and slender thing; a pointed instrument; a goad; a spur, etc.; a point; a skewer. Pins, wooden pricks, nails, sprigs
• PRICKLOUSE
  A tailor; -- so called in contempt. L'Estrange.
• UPPRICKED
  Upraised; erect; -- said of the ears of an animal. Mason.
• AQUAPUNCTURE
  The introduction of water subcutaneously for the relief of pain.
• ELECTRO-PUNCTURATION; ELECTRO-PUNCTURING
  See ELECTROPUNCTURE
• ACUPUNCTURE
  Pricking with a needle; a needle prick. Specifically :
• ELECTRO-PUNCTURE
  An operation that consists in inserting needless in the part affected, and connecting them with the poles of a galvanic apparatus.
• GALVANOPUNCTURE
  See ELECTRO-PUNCTURE